The Grasshopper and the Ants is a Silly Symphony cartoon released on February 10, 1934. The Moral: Hard work now will … The Ant and The Grasshopper Story is the most fascinating and meaningful story having a remembering moral. The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. I remember the Disney cartoon and it has a very grim ending when the ants send the grasshopper off to starve to death in winter. The ants save his life and in return he entertains them with his music. Review the discussion questions and choose those that will best help the children share their interpretations of the story and relate it to their own lives. When winter came, the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing, every day, … This fable describe about an incident with the ant and the grasshopper. But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. While the grasshopper was enjoying the day, an ant was carrying grains and taking to the nest with great toil. With Pinto Colvig. But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. It is based on the classic fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. With all the food stored, they could relax. The grasshopper insisted that they had enough food for winter, but when the cold weather came, he realized that the ant was right and he should have been prepared. There is no warmth or food for you here!’ And the ant shut the door in the grasshopper… The ants at the end have compassion on the grasshopper and they feed him, while the grasshopper entertains them. “The Ant and the Grasshopper” One bright day in late autumn, a family of ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat. You should have thought of winter then! Day after day, they worked hard. They spent the rest of the summer and autumn playing games. On seeing the hardworking ant passing by, the grasshopper invited him to join him and share his fun. Directed by Wilfred Jackson. The grasshopper wanted the ant to stop and talk to him, but the ant was too busy preparing for winter. Soon, they had stored enough food for winter. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future. The Ant and the Grasshopper Aesop (Croxall, 1775) In the winter season, a commonwealth of ants was busily employed in the management and preservation of their corn; which they exposed to the air, in heaps, round about the avenues of their little country habitation. Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for the days of necessity. The next spring and summer, both ant and grasshopper went out and worked. The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. Read the story and prepare to share it with the group. All day long in the summer the ant would work hard, collecting food while the grasshopper enjoyed the bright summer days. Find somewhere else to sing, grasshopper! When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. A copy of the story, "The Ant and the Grasshopper" Preparation for Activity. The ant looked at the grasshopper and said, ‘All summer long I worked hard while you made fun of me, and sang and danced. It is a story taken from Aesop Fables and number as 373 in Perry index of Fables. When a lazy grasshopper prefers to sing and dance rather than forage like his friends the ants, he learns to regret it when winter approaches. 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